40 Chap. ¢. AnExpofition upon the tookof J O B. Ve f', dome while Sodome periflted by fire : And righteous Noah was faved in the Ark, while the world of the ungodly pcxithcd by water. And 1attly,Both the righteous and the wicked,may be wrapped up in ,,he very fame outward perithingcondition, yet always with a difference ; though both alike perilh, yet their perithing is not alike, As it is with the righteousand wicked in regard of fin, fo of fufferings : they may both commit the fame fin for the matter, as it is a tranfgrcfon of the Law ; but a righteous man can never fin as the, wicked ; he tins not, with fuch formalities of finning, he bath not filch a heart, fuch a temper and bent of fpirit, as a wicked man hath in tinning: to fin fo, is utterly incontiftent with the new nature. -1 hus alto it is with the prrinhitit s, affliElions, and troubles which th y tall itîto; God fometimcs fends the very fame aflliûion, for tfae matter,as fuppofe "poverty, want, imprifonment,captivity,and the like,úpon theone, as upon the other t But are the righteousfmitten, as God finites thole that finite them ? Surely no, in meafure he debatethwith them. Ills. 27; 7, 8. They lin not againfi God with the fame heart, or at the fame rate as the wicked do: and God never ttrikes themwith the fame heart, or at the fame rate as he doth the wicked; he can- not do it, the ftrengthof' his love to them, makes this impotition for him. Therefore, though as the Preacher ref-Gives the cafe, Ecclef : 9. i . No man knoavetb either love or hatred, by all that is be- fore him : In the matter ofevents, love or hatred are not vifible; yet in the manner ofevents there ismuch love and hatred vifib!e: and the Epirus of fuch as are under thole events,may difcern'love or hatred, when no eye can One teeth hatred,and another feeth love, abundance of love mixed inhis cup of forrow. God never gives his own, a cupof pure wrath to drink ; there are alwayes fume ingredients of comfort and fwectnefs put into it. This is the third tenfe, how righteous ones may, or may not perith. Take perifhing, in the fourth fertfe, as perithing is an eternal deflrution;and fo the propóftion of Elipbazis true throughout, ttriUly true ; That no righteous ever perifhed, or were cut off ; an innocent perfon is, in that fenfe, pall perithing; a righteous reran is pali cutting off: ,f4. ro. 28. Ido'give;into them eternal life, and they fhall newer perifh. Rejoyce in this, ye righteous, ye are beyond,perïthirg, ye are pall perifbing, while ye live in pc- , tithing world, Lattly
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